Sibylla of Anjou
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Ermengarde, Countess of Maine | |
Sibylla of Anjou (c. 1112–1165) was a countess consort of Flanders as the wife of Thierry, Count of Flanders. She served as the regent of Flanders during the absence of her spouse from 1147 to 1149.
First marriage
Sybilla was the daughter of
Countess consort of Flanders
In 1134, Sibylla married
archbishop of Reims
intervened and a truce was signed, but Thierry took vengeance on Baldwin when he returned in 1149.
In 1157 Sibylla travelled with Thierry on his third pilgrimage, but after arriving in Jerusalem she separated from her husband and refused to return home with him.Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem over a number of other candidates. Sibylla died in Bethany in 1165.[9]
Issue
Sibylla and Thierry had:
- Philip, Count of Flanders[10]
- Marie of Boulogne
- Margaret, Countess of Flanders and Hainaut, married Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut[11]
- Gertrude, married Humbert III, Count of Savoy[11]
- Matilda[11]
- Peter[11]
References
- ^ Runciman 1952, p. 227.
- ^ Lane-Poole 2002, p. 275.
- ^ a b c Hollister 1984, p. 86.
- ^ a b Stroll 2004, p. 166-167.
- ^ Adair 2003, p. 108.
- ^ a b Harwood 2020, p. 96.
- ^ Barber 2012, p. 160.
- ^ Barber 2012, p. 67.
- ^ Runciman 1952, p. 361.
- ^ Runciman 1952, p. 414.
- ^ a b c d e Gilbert of Mons 2005, p. xvii.
Sources
- Adair, Penelope A. (2003). "Flemish Comital Family and the Crusades". In Semaan, Khalil I. (ed.). The Crusades: Other Experiences, Alternate Perspective. Global Academic Publishing.
- Barber, Malcolm (2012). The Crusader States. Yale University Press.
- Gilbert of Mons (2005). Chronicle of Hainaut. Translated by Napran, Laura. The Boydell Press.
- Harwood, Sophie (2020). Medieval Women and War: Female Roles in the Old French Tradition. Bloomsbury.
- Hollister, C. Warren (1984). "War and Diplomacy in the Anglo-Norman world: the reign of Henry I". In Brown, Reginald Allen (ed.). Anglo-Norman Studies VI: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1983. Boydell Press.
- Lane-Poole, Stanley (2002). Saladin and the Fall of Jerusalem. Greenhill Books.
- N. Huyghebaert, Une comtesse de Flandre à Béthanie, in "Les cahiers de Saint -André", 1964, n°2, 15p.
- Runciman, Steven (1952). A History of the Crusades. Vol. II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem. Cambridge University Press.
- Stroll, Mary (2004). Calixtus the Second, 1119-1124. Brill.166-167
- William of Tyre, A History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea. E. A. Babcock and A. C. Krey, trans. Columbia University Press, 1943.
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